Wilhelm Peters (soccer player, 1901)

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Wilhelm Hans Christian Carl Peters , usually called Willy or Willi Peters for short (born March 18, 1901 in Hamburg ; † February 16, 1941 in Berlin ), was a German football player , referee and association official.

Career as a player

Wilhelm "Willy" Peters already played in the league team of Altonaer FC from 1893 at the age of 16 , which was in the A-class - at the time the clubs from Hamburg and its neighboring town Altona / Elbe were in the top division. This deployment at a young age was undoubtedly also favored in the 1917/18 season by the fact that not only the AFC often had problems getting a complete team together due to the war conditions . Peters started as left winger or half left , where he stormed alongside the national player Adolf Jäger . From 1920 onwards, it was usually positioned as a right runner .

Up to and including 1925/26, his team was  Hamburg champion only once in the face of strong league competitors - in particular Eimsbütteler TV , Union 03 Altona , Hamburger SV and Victoria Hamburg - but otherwise always finished in one of the top places in the table. Peters quickly became a fixture among the black-white-reds; Therefore, from 1921/22 onwards, he was also repeatedly used for the selection team of the twin cities, where he played against Nuremberg / Fürth, Kiel and Rotterdam, among others, and of course also often for the city selection of Altona. From 1924 he was also three times in the North German selection; this won Peters in the 1924/25 season after a 2: 1-final victory over South Germany the Federal Cup . In the same season he was reinforced with the AFC champions of Hamburg / Altona , especially in the goalkeeping position (there Hans Wentorf replaced Walter Gamerdinger, who often fluctuated in his performances ) and qualified for the points round of the six best clubs in Northern Germany. The 93er initially beat Eintracht Braunschweig , Kilia Kiel and Arminia Hannover , but then lost 4: 5 to Hamburger SV after 4-1 lead and then gave away another point against Holstein Kiel . So the Altona only stayed in the North German runner-up - in the table tied with HSV. Nevertheless, this was enough for participation in the final round of the German championship . Peters missed the 4-2 win over FC Titania from Szczecin , but was back in his regular position in the quarterfinals; Altona 93 lost to Duisburg SpV with 0: 2.

In 1926 Willy Peters left Altona; he joined the SC Concordia from Wandsbek-Marienthal , another neighboring city of Hamburg, for which he laced his football boots for two more years, in the highest league in 1926/27 and in the second highest league in 1927/28.

Career as a referee

Willy Peters then hit the referee career at Concordia; behind Alfred Birlem and Peco Bauwens , he developed into one of the most renowned DFB referees of the 1930s. At the national level, he was first used in June 1929 in a quarter-final match for the German championship between 1. FC Nuremberg and Tennis Borussia Berlin . In a round of 16 game between Eintracht Frankfurt and VfL Benrath ( 1929/30 ), he sent two Benrathers ( Max Schmitz and Willi Hoffmann ) off the pitch. In 1933 he was appointed as an employee of the Reichsfachamt football in Berlin; there he was responsible for the area that became Gau Danzig-West Prussia in 1939 , from that point on as Gauobmann. Referee highlights on the national stage were the semi-finals in June 1934 between Schalke 04 and SV Waldhof and, in particular, the first final for the 1938 title between Hannover 96 and Schalke (3: 3 a.s.). By April 1939, when he directed his last final match ( Schweinfurt 05 against Dresdner SC ), he had a total of 13 appearances in games for the German championship.

Peters was also repeatedly used in the Tschammer Cup introduced in 1935 . These included the quarter-final game between 1. FC Nürnberg and Vienna Wien ( 1938 ) and the semi-final game between Schalke 04 and Schweinfurt 05 from the 1936 competition . In addition, he headed two finals for the now "Reichsbundpokal" called Federal Cup : 1936 the first final between the selection teams from Saxony and Southwest, 1937 the one between Lower Rhine and Saxony.

Between 1936 and 1939, Wilhelm Peters was also nominated for four international matches, including Japan's 3-2 first-round victory over Sweden during the 1936 Olympic football tournament . There he also assisted Alfred Birlem in the game for the bronze medal between Norway and Poland . In October 1936 he led the friendship meeting between Denmark and Poland in Copenhagen . Other international appearances are not to be found in the DFB archive, but at the Danish Football Association (DBU) : in June 1937 he whistled Denmark against Norway on the occasion of the Nordisk Mesterskab and two years later Denmark against Finland in the tournament on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the DBU. In July 1937 he directed the friendly international match between Latvia and Estonia in Riga .

In 1941 Wilhelm Peters, 39 years old, died with his family - the couple had a daughter and a son - in Berlin-Tiergarten as a result of a “brain tumor” that might have been triggered by a fall during his playing days.

successes

  • as a player
    • Winner of the Federal Cup in 1925
    • Participants in the final round of the German championship in 1925
  • as an arbitrator
    • 4 international matches from 1936 to 1939
    • Olympic participant in 1936
    • Head of the final of the German championship in 1938

literature

  • Norbert Carsten: Altona 93. 111 league years in ups and downs. The workshop, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-437-5 .
  • 50 years of SC Concordia. Club history, Hamburg 1957.
  • Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X .
  • Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Vol. 28). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-106-9 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Knieriem / Grüne, p. 289; specified dates after a communication from Peters' son to the lead author of this article.
  2. ↑ Carsten, p. 63.
  3. ↑ Carsten, p. 75 ff.
  4. ↑ Carsten, p. 83.
  5. ↑ Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüss, pp. 356 and 372.
  6. ↑ Carsten, pp. 90-92; on p. 91 there is a photo of the AFC team with Willy Peters before the game against Braunschweig.
  7. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 , p. 74 and p. 76.
  8. ↑ Carsten, pp. 98 and 102; Knieriem / Grüne, p. 289; the two seasons after 50 years of SC Concordia, p. 28, where there is also a photo of the team squad from 1926/27 with Peters, which is also published in Axel Juckenack / Werner Platthoff / Jens-Peter Schneider: SC Concordia von 1907 e. V. Hamburg. , Sutton, Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89702-724-0 , p. 13.
  9. ↑ 50 years of SC Concordia, p. 68.
  10. ↑ All DM final round referees during Peters' active time can be found with Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 , pp. 78-208.
  11. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 , p. 92.
  12. ↑ after Specknet
  13. ↑ According to a written communication from Peters' son to the main author of this article, partially confirmed by the fact that Querengässer listed him as Peters (Hamburg) up to and including 1932 and as Peters (Berlin) from 1934 (pp. 106 and 122 f.).
  14. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 , p. 122.
  15. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German football championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 , p. 171; also Hardy Grüne: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga 1890–1963. AGON, Kassel 1996 ISBN 3-928562-85-1 , p. 165.
  16. ^ These 13 games according to Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship. Part 1: 1903-1945 , pp. 92, 97, 106, 113, 122, 127, 128, 133, 139, 149, 160, 171 and 176.
  17. ^ In Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 , there are six appearances from the round of 16 between 1935 and 1938.
  18. ^ Gilbert Bringmann (ed.): Football Almanach 1900–1943. 2nd Edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-13-4 , p. 153.
  19. ^ According to Knieriem / Grüne, p. 289, only three international matches; however, both the website of the Danish football association DBU and that of the RSSSF name three games with Danish participation.
  20. ↑ according to RSSSF
  21. ↑ Match details on FIFA.com
  22. ↑ date according to the website of the Danish Football Association ; the DFB yearbook 1937, on the other hand, names November 5th as the date.
  23. ↑ Written communication from the DFB archive dated January 26, 2010 to the main author of this article: "Unfortunately, a list of referee missions is no longer available in the DFB yearbooks following [1937]."
  24. ↑ Information on these "Danish games" from this compilation at dbu.dk.
  25. ↑ Football MATCH: July 27, 1939 Latvia v Estonia at eu-football.info.
  26. ↑ A copy of the death certificate is available to the main author of this article.
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peters, Willy; Peters, Wilhelm Hans Christian Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and referee
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1941
Place of death Berlin